11-letter words containing c, h
- black light — the invisible electromagnetic radiation in the ultraviolet and infrared regions of the spectrum
- black perch — a livebearing surfperch, Embiotoca jacksoni, occurring in abundance along the coast of California, having brownish-black scales often tinged with blue or yellow and a thick, reddish mouth.
- black shank — a disease of tobacco, characterized by wilting and by decayed, blackened roots and stems, caused by a fungus, Phytophthora parasitica nicotianae.
- black sheep — If you describe someone as the black sheep of their family or of a group that they are a member of, you mean that they are considered bad or worthless by other people in that family or group.
- black shirt — a member of any fascist organization (specif., the former Italian Fascist party) with a black-shirted uniform
- black watch — a regiment of Scottish infantry in the British army (so called from the dark colors in their tartan).
- black whale — a black, dolphinlike whale, Globicephala melaena, of the North Atlantic.
- black witch — any of several large noctuid moths of the genus Erebus, especially the blackish E. odora (black witch) of Central and North America.
- blackhander — a member of a Black Hand group
- blank check — If someone is given a blank check, they are given the authority to spend as much money as they need or want.
- blastochyle — the fluid in a blastocoel
- bleacherite — someone who sits in the bleachers at a sports stadium
- bletcherous — /blech'*-r*s/ Disgusting in design or function; aesthetically unappealing. This word is seldom used of people. "This keyboard is bletcherous!" (Perhaps the keys don't work very well, or are misplaced.) The term bletcherous applies to the esthetics of the thing so described; similarly for cretinous. By contrast, something that is "losing" or "bagbiting" may be failing to meet objective criteria.
- bleu cheese — blue cheese
- block chord — a two-handed chord played usually in the middle range of the piano with the left hand duplicating or complementing the right-hand notes.
- block house — Stock Exchange. a firm that specializes in block trades.
- blue cheese — cheese containing a blue mould, esp Stilton, Roquefort, or Danish blue
- blue cohosh — either of two unrelated plants of the eastern U.S., Cimicifuga racemosa (black cohosh) of the buttercup family, or Caulophyllum thalictroides (blue cohosh) of the barberry family, both used medicinally.
- blue schist — a metamorphic rock formed under conditions of high pressure and relatively low temperature
- board check — a body check in which the opponent is thrown against the wooden wall enclosing the rink. Compare check1 (def 37).
- boat anchor — 1. Like doorstop but more severe; implies that the offending hardware is irreversibly dead or useless. "That was a working motherboard once. One lightning strike later, instant boat anchor!" 2. A person who just takes up space. 3. Obsolete but still working hardware, especially when used of an old S100-bus hobbyist system; originally a term of annoyance, but became more and more affectionate as the hardware became more and more obsolete.
- body search — If a person is body searched, someone such as a police officer searches them while they remain clothed. Compare strip-search.
- body-search — to search all parts of the body of: Police ordered the suspects to strip and then body-searched them for hidden caches of narcotics.
- bondi beach — a beach in Sydney, Australia, popular with surfers
- booby hatch — a hoodlike covering for a hatchway on a ship
- braced arch — an arch of steel, timber, etc., having a trusslike framework maintaining rigidity under a variety of eccentric loads: a true arch because it is fixed or tied at both sides of the base.
- brachialgia — pain in the nerves of the upper arm.
- brachiating — Botany. having widely spreading branches in alternate pairs.
- brachiation — locomotion accomplished by swinging by the arms from one hold to another.
- brachiosaur — any of a genus (Brachiosaurus) of huge Jurassic sauropods having longer forelegs than hind legs and nostrils high on the forehead
- brachyodont — (of mammals, such as humans) having teeth with short crowns
- brachyprism — the four faces parallel to the brachyaxis in a crystal
- brachyurous — shorttailed, as a crab (opposed to macrurous).
- brahmachari — a student of the Vedas, especially one committed to brahmacharya.
- brahminical — Hinduism. Brahman1 (def 1).
- brain child — a product of one's creative work or thought.
- branch line — A branch line is a railway line that goes to small towns rather than one that goes between large cities.
- branch wilt — a disease of walnut trees, characterized by sudden wilting of the leaves, and cankers and discoloration of the bark and branches, caused by a fungus, Hendersonula toruloidea.
- branchiform — shaped like a gill.
- branchiopod — any crustacean of the mainly freshwater subclass Branchiopoda, having flattened limblike appendages for swimming, feeding, and respiration. The group includes the water fleas
- breconshire — (until 1974) a county of SE Wales, now mainly in Powys: over half its area forms the Brecon Beacons National Park
- breech baby — a baby whose buttocks or feet are presented first during the birth process.
- breechblock — a metal block in breech-loading firearms that is withdrawn to insert the cartridge and replaced to close the breech before firing
- breechcloth — a cloth worn about the loins; loincloth
- breechclout — a cloth worn about the breech and loins; loincloth.
- brickshaped — resembling the shape of a brick
- bright coal — coal consisting of alternating layers of clarain and vitrain.
- broad reach — an act or instance of reaching: to make a reach for a gun.
- brochantite — a mineral, hydrous copper sulfate, Cu 4 (OH) 6 SO 4 , occurring in green fibrous masses and similar in physical properties to antlerite: formerly a major ore of copper.
- bronchocele — dilatation of a bronchus.